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Michelangelo was renowned for his paintings and sculptures.  Frank Lloyd Wright was known for his architecture. Johann Sebastian Bach was famous for his music. They are all famous for their works of art, but behind their artwork was an unrivaled passion. The passion from within themselves to create masterpieces that would inspire, motivate, and shape the people and world around them. Each individual creating art with the idea that their passion expressed through their artwork would reach people all over. 

When Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, he knew that he was creating art, not only for the patrons, but for any and all to indulge. When Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses and buildings, he designed them, not only for the people occupying those buildings, but for all to see and experience. When Johann Sebastian Bach wrote music, he wrote his music, not only for people in his area, but for all to hear and relish in the symphony of sounds. 

We at MyCD do what we do because of our passion. Our passion to help others. Our passion for MYanmar. Our passion to shape a better world and to create a better future for all. We at MyCD take our passion and work diligently to create works of art in the form of systems, not only for the community, but for communities all over MYanmar and beyond to the entire world. We do that in the hopes that our creations will inspire, motivate, and shape the people and world around us into a future that we can all be proud of having, and for every generation after us. 

System: "a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network." - "a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized framework or method."

We create these artworks (systems) by the following ways:

Audit: "a systematic review or assessment of something."

We analyze areas based on their schools, infrastructures, roads, businesses, buildings, occupations, environment, climate, resources, ecology, agriculture, technology, and other factors, and create auditing processes to gather data and information. 

In most Southeast Asian countries, MYanmar especially, audits are practically non-existent. 

The Agriculture101 website was created based on audits of fruits and vegetables found in MYanmar and Thailand, and an audit on fruits and vegetables in the US for comparison.

We teach and educate communities on the importance of basic constituent materials as being foundational and crucial for places to thrive. 

If a location does not have wheat, this may seem inconsequential, but we know that wheat is actually a basic component to thousands of products. Wheat can be processed into flour, and flour can be used to create pizzas, pastas, breads, donuts, pastries, cookies, and pies. 

By auditing the fruits and vegetables found in MYanmar and Thailand, we are able to invigorate all of MYanmar with a comparative list of basic materials (fruits and vegetables) that can be grown in their location and set minimum baselines for all locations. As a result, each new product will introduce a wealth of other products that are created from those new basic ingredients. 

By auditing the fruits and vegetables, we are able to educate families, not only farmers, about basic micro-agriculture and farming that is possible within their own households to increase their nutritional intake and identify deficiencies. 

By auditing the fruits and vegetables, we were able to gather the data on the nutritional values of each fruit and vegetable, and educate communities on data analyzation by auditing their own nutritional consumption, as well as making healthier eating choices a part of the culture. 

The benefits of something so simple as auditing the fruits and vegetables leads to far more greater things in which we can house upon that data. However, had we not gathered that data, most people in MYanmar may have never known of all the possibilities of fruits and vegetables and benefits of that data that their community was missing.

We at MyCD believe that big fancy words mean little without proper education in the form of "how to" instructions. For example, telling people in poverty that one of the ways to get out of poverty is through saving money is far too general. We educate the community on financial management and give them feasible, practical, and viable ways with step by step instructions. Having a "how to" approach allows us to create and teach communities on how they too can create "how to" documentation and knowledge bases.

In Information Technology, we create documentation with clear and precise steps through instructions, images, and videos to ensure that the results we want the person to accomplish are clearly laid out for them to mirror and repeat. We at MyCD believe in that same methodology to help people with our documentation and guidelines. 

Part of the Agriculture101 website was based on the idea of "how to" accomplish creating or improving agriculture, nutrition and nutritional assessments, diagnosis, and remediation, and education with step by step instructions on new technology such as translation services to attain a wealth of information beyond agriculture. 

Eventually, another one of MyCD's goals and vision is to create an extensive knowledge base of "how to" content about things in MYanmar.

We have had Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, and now we are educating what we at MyCD like to call the "Gen Ai" (Gen A [generation A] combined with Ai [artificial intelligence]). This new generation is growing up in one of the most crucial times in humanity's technological advancement through the incorporation and use of AI in all aspects of our lives. 

We at MyCD have worked with educators and educational institutions to identify areas of improvement, as well as opportunities to change instructional methods, content, structure, and integrate computers and computer technology and concepts. 

We have taught English, computer, new technology, and community development classes to students and teachers.

We have pushed for computer education to be added as a core curriculum in schools, and advocated computer education to begin as early as elementary school. If basic computer classes are being taught in grade school, then by the time these children enter high school, they are taking higher level computer classes like learning how to use ChatGPT (chatbot), Jasper (concent creation), Grammarly (grammer checker), Dall-E (image generation), Murf (music generation), Mem (knowledge management), Asana (project management), Fireflies (transcription), Reclaim (scheduling), SaneBox (email inbox management), Decktopus (presentations), Zapier (automation) and create their own AI tools, take their AI skills to their universities, and incorporate AI into every field in the job world. 

A few of the improvements (depending on situation) was the recommendation of incorporating tablets, computer classes, vocational training, data gathering and analyzation of student's scores, data gathering of alumni through surveys, follow ups with alumni, identifying community leaders for guest lectures, identifying community volunteers as extra-curricular teachers, creating extra-curricular classes as part of after school programs, incorporating teaching material besides whiteboards such as the usage of videos, projectors, and TVs, the adoption of an interactive learning approach, as opposed to the lecture and listen only style, creating tutoring centers, creating leadership and mentorship programs, providing solutions to increase school funding, and researching options to provide practical solutions. One of the many benefits of MyCD having been educated in US schools systems is that we have decades of experience and knowledge about a huge amount of additional options to help improve schools based on the American education system. 

Besides the improvements listed above, a few notable solutions (depending on school) that schools need to incorporate is the integration of grass into play areas for children. All too often we have identified the common playground for children to consist of dirt. Children running on dirt during hot temperatures causes the dust to rise into the air and create breathing and eye irritation. During rainfall, dirt turns into mud which causes children to slip and receive injuries. Also, during heavy rain, soil that have high levels of compaction and clay create puddles that dry and form tripping hazards. By planting grass onto these same areas, grass helps absorb water during rain. The roots from grass help penetrate the top layer of soil and allow water to penetrate through some surfaces increasing drainage. Grass drastically reduces the amount of dust consisting of dirt and other particulates that rises into the air to practically zero. 

Another issue with schools, even ones that have larger budgets are school chairs and desks. All too often throughout MYanmar, schools incorporate a "one size fits all" approach with all chairs and desks the same height. Sadly, this "one size fits all" actually rarely fits any student. Here is one research on the "influences of furniture on children". We work with schools on creating or purchasing customizable and dynamic chairs and desks for students. In many cases, faculty and teachers are unaware of the effects of posture and furniture on students. Because of this, students may be misdiagnosed with behavioral issues. Also, we encourage schools to integrate firm cushions in addition to proper chairs and desks. Offices all over the US have shifted toward office chairs with cushioned seats for employees that sit at their desks for long periods of time, yet we offer no cushioned seats to children that spend almost as much time sitting in chairs during all of their classes. 

We at MyCD have always advocated for equality. As such, we have noticed in almost every case that sports in schools are male dominated with no activities for females. In MYanmar, the leading sports are football (soccer) or Chinlone. Because of the limited number of sports and activities, and these activities being male dominated, females are left as bystanders or have no participation. MyCD works to encourage activities to incorporate females into various sports such as their own football (soccer) teams, volleyball, basketball, baseball, and softball to start. Depending on budget, all other sports may be available options. 

At the heart of MyCD is our passion, and at our core is community development. We at MyCD understand that complex problems require clear understanding of all of the components that comprise and work together to create issues that plague areas of poverty. In many cases, organizations specialize and focus on single areas of improvement, research, finance, development, and innovation, yet their results at times do not meet expectations. Part of the issue is a lack of understanding of the complex web of intricate networks and systems that are their environment. 

To understand the issues of poverty, we need to understand that poverty is not a household or individual issue, but a systemic issue with foundational and underlying problems within the community. By understanding poverty with great depth and detail, we teach the community that to alleviate and solve poverty in their area, audits are a key component and tool in unraveling and demystifying their community. After clear and defined data gathering through audits and educating the community on the connections, pipelines, and structures of their infrastructure that are composed of all aspects from schools, businesses, education, training, roads, buildings, resources, income, budgets, and population, we help begin the process of implementing and integrating solutions based on data. 

As MyCD continues to develop and provide guidance on community development, we are constantly gathering more data, re-analyzing current methods and techniques, setting up metrics and thresholds for adaptive and responsive scaling and modification, and innovating the integration of new technology through production and testing environments. Because of our usage of Information Technology frameworks and methods, we constantly invigorate a community with CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) of new ideas and improvements. A few of the ways in which we are able to accomplish all of these improvements is by our methods.

Before, new and innovative technology moved fairly slowly. However, because of technologies that are growing in an exponential scale, change is happening at rates in which even developed countries are falling behind their own technological advances. Another issue that gets little to no attention with less developed countries is that during times where change was slow, their lack of adoption of new technology did not pose much concern. However, because of the current rate of expansion of new technology, less developed countries are being left behind at distances that are almost unfathomable. 

We can think of the rate of change in terms of a person walking toward a destination that is a few miles away, and their friend is using a scooter. The person walking may not seem too concerned that their friend may get to the destination a little bit sooner than them. What if their friend took a bike? What if their friend took a car? We can see that the difference between the person walking and the person in a car is drastically enormous. However, if the person was traveling in an F1 race car, then the difference between the two is incomparable at that point. Developed countries are traveling at the speed of rockets that can land themselves and driverless cars, and less developed countries are traveling at the pace of oxen and horses. 

To understand how MyCD shapes MYanmar for the better, we have to understand the methodologies that are used to achieve far superior and repeatable results time and time again.  

Frameworks: "an essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object." - "a basic structure underlying a system, concept, or text." 

Frameworks are just as important to building structures, buildings, and homes, as they are important to community development. Frameworks allow us to create various simple structures and combine and scale them into complex systems through multiple organizational methods that are malleable and adaptive. However, selecting the right frameworks for the right systems are just as crucial and integral as having frameworks. By creating, teaching, and utilizing these frameworks, we create a unison and cohesive network of communities all driven toward the same shared goals to solve similar problems, and innovate each community to the adoption of new techniques. 

The frameworks we incorporate into our services come from leading industry standards that are tried, validated, and accepted as the highest levels of efficiency in forms and functions in the medical field and Information Technology. These frameworks were created with the intention to save lives in the medical field, create and maintain the best hospitals, and help diagnose, treat, and resolve medical issues. In the Information Technology field, these frameworks were design to create the fastest, most efficient, resilient, redundant, scalable, refined, cost-effective solutions for a variety of environments, technologies, and systems.

The reason MyCD is able to achieve the highest level of performance is because we have decades of experience in various professional fields with accredited learning, and we understand the key, fundamental, and complex theories that are leading and driving industries all around the world at the highest caliber. Since we understand the concepts from all of those frameworks, we are able to apply those concepts to other fields such as poverty, malnutrition, education, sanitation, production, housing, and healthcare and many more. 

Once we have established these frameworks that were based on research, gathering data, analyzing data, creating systems, making data-driven solutions, gathering more data, fine tuning these systems through reevaluation, our final product is a finely developed and designed system that performs with the highest level of optimization, yet offers customization, flexibility, and adaptation. Then, we teach others by building a network consisting of additional frameworks that individuals can utilize to continue to maintain and operate these new systems well into the future. 

All industry leaders have shifted toward a data-driven approach to achieve the maximum level of success in every field. Part of the issue with places that are not driven by data is that they are driven by assumptions, biases, and favoritism, and in most cases, by reasons that are not the best. Unfortunately, less developed countries are almost entirely driven by these outdated methodologies, and all of their processes have been replaced by new ways of doing everything. Driving all of the frameworks, decisions, methods, technologies, and our advanced civilizations forward is data.

Data: "facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis." 

To be data-driven, we need to collect data. However, the type of data we collect is as crucial as the data being collected. Otherwise, time can be wasted collecting data that is of little to no importance. We help communities collect the right type of data, so that these communities can understand how to correctly analyze data based on their locations. 

There is no coincidence in the reasons why Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominating the landscape, entering into every field, and revolutionizing the world. For us to understand part of the reason, we need to understand a bit of how AI is being created. AI can be trained in various methods, but those various methods have one key factor. That factor is data. Lots of data. In fact, all of the developed countries are gathering and utilizing data to train AI models for every aspect of our lives. The idea and understanding that data is crucial and paramount in training AI to create AI systems that perform at the highest level is why we at MyCD use that same understanding to train communities. 

In fact, we at MyCD create communities modeled after AI frameworks to gather data, train these communities with that data, make data-driven decisions, and then create what we like to call Community Development AI. A Community Development collective Artificial Intelligence (AI) run by people in place of computers, until we have enough data and frameworks in place to train computer based AI models. However, since electricity and computers are an issue for places all over MYanmar, having a community development AI mindset and framework will bring these communities closer to creating and understanding AI systems within their areas, reap the benefits of AI system methodology, and bringing them that much closer to the rest of the developed countries. 

In almost every location in MYanmar, data is not being collected. As a result, a majority of the population has no clue about the factors in their environment that are shaping their lives. In many cases, the leaders in these locations do not have the data to understand the ways in which their communities are changing or not, and end up making decisions based on assumptions passed off as experience. We work with communities and community leaders to ensure that their decisions are supported with data. We can think of data as a series of facts. If we do not have facts, then we do not have the right evidence to make the right decisions. 

Once we gather the right types of data all over the community, we teach all ages the skill of data analyzation. The reason we need to teach data analyzation is to reinforce the understanding and importance of the data and facts that are being presented to us, so that everyone will be highly educated in the subjects in which we are analyzing. Previously and traditionally, once data was collected, many groups go into decision making. The reason this method was abandoned was because, even with the right data, the wrong decisions were still made based on the data. We have come to understand that data analyzation needed to take place before decision making to raise the level of expertise of all individuals in each subject. Then, the decision making process can begin to take shape. 

Another traditional method was to stop after the decision making process was completed, move on to implementation, and then maintaining the processes in place. As frameworks and methodologies improved, we learned that the decision making process is actually the middle of the overall process. After decision making comes another level of data gathering to make sure that our process is working, our goals and outcomes are being achieved, and to verify and identify any changes, causes, and effects our decisions have made on our environment. 

Once we have the new sets of data, we go back to data analyzation, and alter, tune, and improve our decisions to better achieve our goals. The entire process revolves around data; therefore, the significance and importance of data is of the highest importance in community develop, and data and community development are intrinsically intertwined. 

For us to understand another major underlying issue within MYanmar, we need to understand the root causes. Root cause analysis is a major tool in Information Technology that allows us to understand the source or sources of symptoms. If we do not understand the source, then in many cases we are merely treating the symptoms. We have to understand that poverty is not a cause. Poverty is a symptom. Poverty is a result. However, if we look into the causes of poverty, we may try and think of solutions, implement solutions, and then wonder why our solutions are still not resolving the issues in our community. 

Places all throughout MYanmar have suffered through a lack of education and have been in a state of poverty for generations. One of the problems with a lack of education in relation to computer technology is that almost all of the computer technologies are conceptual. Computers represent the physical aspect of computer technology, but almost all of our computer technologies are concepts housed on top of other concepts to make larger complex technologies.

The lack of education in MYanmar has created generations that have difficulty in understanding concepts that are purely conceptual. Because of that, many decisions are made based on physical and tangible things. We at MyCD help bridge that gap by teaching computer concepts all throughout community development to reinforce conceptual learning, as well as pairing these concepts to real physical and tangible things in their daily lives. Another reason for the creation of the Agriculture101 website was to educate people with tangible and intangible higher complex concepts and skills in which MyCD could teach computer concepts by leveraging agricultural references. 

Which brings us to another major method in which MyCD improves communities. People all over Myanmar are trying to solve problems that are physical and tangible. That is not wrong, but the crucial component lacking in their communities is the ability to solve immaterial and intangible problems. MyCD helps villages through cyclic identification in which communities are educated on cycles that are stuck in a loop that most do not even know exist. A few of these cycles are:

No capital, no productivity.

No production, no development.

No innovation, no change.

No testing, no integration.

No products, no market.

No audit, no data-driven decisions.

No long term vision, no long term plans.

If we understand a process or processes, we can map out and identify the flow of those processes whether the flow be linear (straight) or a tree (breaking into many different branches and segments). Once we have the processes mapped out, we can identify bottlenecks and alleviate or remove the bottlenecks through various means. The issue without cyclic identification is that there is no current process in place; therefore, identifying bottlenecks, problems, and areas of improvement are non-existent. For example, how can we solve problems we do not know exist because there is nothing in place to help us identify these problems. For us to improve these system, we need to identify and break these conceptual cycles in order to help get communities out of poverty. 

In the case of "no capital, no productivity", we see this all throughout MYanmar. If there is no money (capital), then there is no work being done (productivity). Unfortunately, this becomes a cyclic problem because no products (no productivity creating products or services) generates no income (capital). In that situation we now have a cycle of "no capital, no productivity, and no productivity, no capital". For parts of the US, a lack of capital, either through diminishing investments, job loss, declining economic factors, or business closures, if not identified and remediated, can easily send a community into poverty (collapse). However, in places like MYanmar that may have never had a high enough local economy, these locations remain in a state of poverty (collapsed state). 

One of the ways in which we can break this cycle is to generate productivity without capital. Thankfully, MYanmar, being a tropical climate, agriculture is one way in which communities all over MYanmar can grow fruits and vegetables without capital (by being resourceful), and begin to generate products from those fruits and vegetables. By doing so, these products can be sold or processed into goods that can generate capital. Obviously, having capital or investments are helpful, but we have to understand why macro-level concepts and community development are so important. 

Without the higher macro-level concepts, infusing a community with capital and investments without proper guidance and systemic knowledge, may only infuse that community for the short term. At least, until the money has been flushed out of that community, and their occupants return to poverty. Even worse, that community never got out of poverty at any level. That is part of the reason why MyCD takes self-sustaining concepts as a tool to keep communities flourishing. Even a community, can be made to be self-sustaining. Then, as capital enters the community before, during, or after, that community is far better at retaining that capital, circulating that capital within their community, and constantly making improvements and investments.

In the case of "no production, no development", we see another cyclic issue in which communities all over MYanmar do not produce anything; therefore, these communities have no product or process in which to develop and improve those products and processes into higher complexity. For products on a global market, these products are competing against products from all around the world. For these products to be successful, in many cases, these products have been developed to a higher degree and surpass or outperform their rival products. 

We at MyCD educate areas on viable means of production and the creation of products, so that these areas begin to have products, systems, frameworks, and processes in place. Once these areas begin to create products, these areas can begin to refine and improve these processes and products with the idea that; eventually, these products will be able to compete in larger markets. If the products can compete in larger markets and further distances, then the pipeline to generate a revenue stream from further distances becomes drastically more feasible. Also, being able to generate income from various locations helps create financial stability for these communities.

For example, if a location in MYanmar does not have the capital to readily afford pastries because their location is too far from any major city, the transportation cost for goods are too high, or the infrastructure create problems in transport, then this location may not see any pastries at all. However, if we begin to grow wheat in that location, process wheat into flour, process cow milk into butter, and generate chicken eggs in large enough quantities, that location can begin to make their own pastries. Once that location begins to make their own pastries, MyCD can continue to help them improve their products (pastries and many other products based on those ingredients), and their processes to make the best pastries within a geographic area with the idea of increasing that range. Also, since that location has the means in which to process and make pastries, that location has the means in which to control pricing or making prices zero for people within that community. 

In other words, since that community has self-sustaining materials to make pastries at no cost, then that location can give their residents free pastries. The only cost was time for individuals to work at various levels of the processes. Take in mind that buying pastries is really a process of trading money for pastries. If a community makes their own pastries and gives them to the residents, then the residents are able to receive pastries and bypasses the need for capital in that regard. In the traditional capitalistic sense, a person would work for money, then spend that money to buy pastries. In this new system, the person could do some work for pastries. In both examples, traditional and new, a person is working to get pastries. The only difference is whether money is involved or not. In locations that capital is non-existent or not too feasible (at least in the short term), we help that community still attain products and raise their quality of life.

"No innovation, no change" is another detrimental issue with places all over MYanmar. The problem with staying the same or not changing is that the entire world is leaving places that do not change behind at faster and faster speeds. Another issue with places not changing is that we know that places that do not change for the better try and maintain a level that is constantly deteriorating. Then, the reality is that these locations exist between a state of poverty and little to no innovation, or deteriorated states less then their current levels. However, if we constantly find ways to improve and integrate innovate ideas and make changes for the better, then these locations exist in their current state and future states in which things are better. That is a major factor in which innovation is another crucial and necessary building block for communities to allow those communities to constantly raise the bar on various metrics.  

For those reasons and more, we at MyCD place enormous emphasis on cyclic identification of conceptual issues within communities and educating these communities on the methods to break these cycles.